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April 10, 2009

Kurt Cobain Remembered
October 30, 2008

New Book Reveals the Private Life of Kurt Cobain
October 30, 2008

Behind "Cobain Unseen": Charles R. Cross on Kurt's Private Archives

"It's almost impossible to describe how obsessive Kurt was over monkeys and anatomical models"
September 30, 2004

Behind the Photo: Kurt Cobain

Photographed by Mark Seliger

Recordings and Reviews

Bleach (Deluxe Edition)

Hot on the heels of Live at Reading is this dolled-up 20th-anniversary (!) edition of Nirvana's debut, which barely hit the radar on its initial release but whose resonance ballooned as the band scorched the earth. Now, its near-greatness is plain, most clearly on "About a Girl," in the...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

With The Lights Out

2004

Nirvana

2002

From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

1996

In Utero

1993

Incesticide

1992

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Biography

Nirvana is widely credited with bringing the sound and spirit of late-'70s punk rock to a mainstream pop audience. In 1991 the Seattle-based trio took the angry, nihilistic message of the Sex Pistols' landmark 1977 single "Anarchy in the U.K." to #6 (#1 Modern Rock) with its own sarcastic blueprint for frustration, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Nirvana's reign was tragically cut short slightly more t...

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